Why a blog?

Because every day, we're working hard to understand the many ways that new parents adjust to their lives, and this is where we can share with you what we learn. That and other stuff that strikes our fancy!

October 2009

October 30, 2009

For the fourth year Skip Hop is proud to be a sponsor at at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation’s Kids for Kids Carnival! We had a blast decorating Skip Hop lunch bags with hundreds of kids and their parents at the Industria Superstudio in Manhattan.

Hallie Kate Eisenberg and soap actress Paulina Gerzon were fabulous helpers at our booth. We had fun chatting with Gilbert Gottfreid as he made bottle bags for his little ones and a great surprise was meeting Season Four Project Runways designers Kevin Christiana and Jack Mackenroth. They designed some really edgy looking lunch bags! A great day for an amazing cause!

October 26, 2009

We love hearing how our customers reuse, recycle, and reinvent their favorite Skip Hop products. This ohdeedoh blog entry gives some really great ideas for moms and dads who no longer need to use their Duo as a diaper bag, or who just need a bigger bag to organize all their stuff.

Blogger Sarah Rae Trover mentions some great ideas such as using the shuttle clips to hook the bag to the front of your bike, cushioning your camera with the changing pad, and stashing your keys and wallet in the front zipper pocket for easy access.

Keep the brilliant ideas coming!! And thanks to ohdeedoh for the awesome review!

Favorite Game:My favorite game growing up was snakes and ladder. Some how I just found it so fascinating that when you hit the top of the snakes head you had to slide all the way down. It was fun for me!

Favorite Super Hero:Well my favorite, I would say, as child was Batman. Funny because I still love Batman today, he’s awesome!!

Outside of work my giant schnauzer keeps me sane and insane at times. He is very lovable, huge, and stubborn (this is where the insanity comes in). When its time to go in he refuses to go. LOL! But he is a really great dog.

October 19, 2009

Favorite
Toy: Matchbox cars and I would play "Smash Up Derby" You would
smash two cars together and which ever one ended up-right would move on to the
next round. All cars had names and my favorite 2 were MP Superior 5 and
Black Lightning. Two-Sider was the name of the reject car.

Favorite
Super Hero: was Superman. I used to act out the entire movie in my back
yard. He had more powers than any other super hero. Anyone
would love to fly and even more important, he can see through anything.
That would be a pretty cool trick

October 14, 2009

Heading to the NYC premier of Motherhood tonight. Hopefully it will be as great as the critics predict and we will spot some celebs out and about! Keep you posted...

A little about the movie that is coming out in select theaters Oct 23rd; "Eliza Welch (Thurman) is a former fiction writer-turned-mom-blogger
with her own site, “The Bjorn Identity.” Putting her deeper creative
ambitions on hold to raise her two children, Eliza lives and works in
two rent-stabilized apartments in a walk-up tenement building smack in
the middle of an otherwise upscale Greenwich Village. Eliza’s
good-natured but absent-minded husband (Edwards) seems tuned out to his
wife’s conflicts, not to mention basic domestic reality, while her best
friend Sheila (Minnie Driver) understands this – and Eliza -- all too
well." - www.motherhoodthefilm.com

October 08, 2009

Sometimes it's nice to know who is behind the scenes at your favorite company (let's just assume that we're one of your favorites ;)) So every week we will feature a new Skip Hop team member for you to get to know! Hope you enjoy meeting the "Skip Hoppers!"

Name: Kelly

Position, Years: Marketing Manager; 1 1/2 years

Hometown: Norwich, NY (Home of the Purple Tornadoes and best pizza place, Nina's!)

Favorite super-hero?: Jem from "Jem and the Holograms"(she was a super hero in my mind!)

Weekend Fun?: I think I'm a little late on the trend but I recently became obsessed with Vinyasa Yoga. Saturdays you will find me shopping in Soho and meeting up with my friends for our "Saturday Night Supper Club." If you have any restaurant suggestions be sure to let me know, but I'm a vegetarian, so no steak houses!

October 07, 2009

Big City Moms has done it again! The semi-annual Biggest Baby Shower event was last night (Tuesday, October 6th) at American Girl
Place in Manhattan. Moms-to-be and more walked away with an amazing gift bag and were also entered to win one of 100 raffle prizes from Skip Hop!

Also, special guest appearances by Kelly Rutherford of Gossip Girl and Dr. Alan Greene kept attendees excited throughout the night!